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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

Likes: Mass Effect, ginger, the 1960s Batman TV show, diversity, Fallout, non-iron read more shirts, Angela Bassett, comics, funk, making and/or consuming satisfying meals, xenomorphs, the Elric saga, weird art, volume, She-Hulk, freeze-frame credits, my goofy cats, green things, transdimensional travel, vindication

Stare at Goats stuff

Posted 17 years ago

I gotta hand it to George Clooney — when it was first announced he was adapting Jon Ronson’s book THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, I half-expected it would get a title change to something more generic and audience accessible....

The Dude’s True Grit?

Posted 17 years ago

Whoa, His Dudeness is reuniting with the Coen Brothers… for a remake of a classic western? The Dude meets The Duke? Pour yourself a strong caucasian and celebrate — actor Jeff Bridges is indeed looking to saddle up and slap...

Theater vs. newspaper

Posted 17 years ago

In the days of endless websites, tweets, widgets and iPhone apps, the further dismissal of newspapers shouldn’t be a shock. You are, after all, reading about it online. Major theater chains Regal and AMC are looking for new ways to...

More on Battle LA

Posted 17 years ago

Several humans have enlisted in the campaign against extraterrestrial insurgents in the action/sci-fi flick BATTLE: LOS ANGELES. Dapper R&B singer Ne-Yo will trade the mic for an M-16, joining irritating TRANSFORMERS 2 sidekick Ramon Rodriguez, Taylor Handley (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE:...

Black Dynamite trailer

Posted 17 years ago

We’ve been hearing some buzz about the blaxploitation spoof BLACK DYNAMITE for quite a while, and now it’s nearly ready to escape the 70s ghetto and launch onto 21st century theater screens. The pistol-packin’ parody (grabbed by Sony after Sundance)...

Tolkien lawsuit over

Posted 17 years ago

A potential impediment to the travels of diminutive adventurer Bilbo Baggins has finally been removed. A seemingly eternal lawsuit by the Tolkien heirs had been looming over THE HOBBIT like Sauron’s blazing eyeball, but the matter has now been resolved,...

Halle Berry vs. shark

Posted 17 years ago

It’s probably safe to assume that we won’t see Halle Berry back as Storm, Catwoman or Bond babe Jinx, but that doesn’t mean she’s done with action. Berry provides her Oscar-winning hotness to DARK TIDE, a thriller being directed by...

Rambo 5 teaser?

Posted 17 years ago

As we recently learned, it sounds like Sylvester Stallone will take RAMBO V in a slightly less realistic direction (which is saying something for the guy who once detonated several hundred miles of Vietnam with explosive arrows), going after a...

Sheen on Wall Street

Posted 17 years ago

A sequel to WALL STREET without Gordon Gekko would’ve been pointless, but fortunately Michael Douglas is back in WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS as the oily broker with the fondness for suspenders and hostile takeovers. But what of his...

Aykroyd’s vodka

Posted 17 years ago

A lot of celebrities develop (or lend their name to) various merchandise, whether it be fragrances, clothing lines, food or makeup. Not many offer an opportunity to guzzle liquor from a glass head replica, so you can thank Dan Aykroyd...

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